Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

April is National Poetry Month, a good time to take a poet to lunch or to open that book of poetry sitting on your bookshelf. As usual, the ...

A recent item in the Church of Ireland Gazette reminded me of an issue related to the proposed Anglican covenant I have been meaning to wr...

Now that the Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool has received the needed consents, her consecration as a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Los Ang...

I returned to Pittsburgh yesterday after visiting my son and daughter-in-law in Ithaca, New York, for a few days. My son recently began grad...

When I established this blog, I expected that a large proportion of my posts would involve computers. Somehow, that never came to pass. That...

The Archives of the Episcopal Church has come up with a new PDF version of the 2009 constitution and canons of the church. In February, I c...

Anglican Journal ran a story a few days ago about resolutions being prepared for the upcoming General Synod of the Anglican Church of Cana...

In response to my last post, “ Reviving Cursillo, Follow -up ,” a discussion developed with the Rev. David Wilson, a former Episcopal priest...

This is a brief follow-up to my last post on the project of reviving Cursillo in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. Yesterday, ten lay an...

It has been more than 20 years since I was a candidate at a Cursillo weekend in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. That weekend was a blessing, thou...

Blogger’s tool for migrating blogs to Blogger servers apparently did not take into account blogs whose home pages were given nonstandard nam...

At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked t...

Someone pointed out to me that my blog’s home page cannot be reached from many blogrolls. This is because its address is coded there as http...

As noted in an update to my last post , I am having a problem printing blog posts from Firefox when the text is long enough to require the p...

This post is to determine if the migration has worked properly. If you see it, it probably has. UPDATE (3/5/2010, 10:24 AM ET): The blog is...

More than a month ago, I warned, in “ The Coming Transition ,” that Lionel Deimel’s Web Log would have to be switched from being hosted on ...

The AP article to which I called attention the other day (see “ Mainline Status Report on Gay Clergy ”) was a reminder that mainline U.S. ch...

A lot of insightful remarks are appearing on the Web about the Anglican covenant, and it is increasingly difficult to keep up with the flood...

We often speak of mainline (Protestant) churches in the U.S. It is not always clear what churches are being referred to, how big those churc...

I’m sitting in front of my TV watching CNN and awaiting the tsunami triggered by the substantial earthquake that took place in Chile this mo...